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Between 1880 and 1914, when Winnipeg experienced its first era of urban and industrial growth, the building industry shaped the contours of the city's economic, social, and political environments. Architects designed, contractors supervised, and workers built the infrastructure that was necessary for commercial and industrial expansion. Residential neighbourhoods, warehouses, office buildings, and factories provided the housing and workplaces for thousands of immigrants who settled in the city in the late nineteenth century. The various trades of the building industry were essential to the conversion of Winnipeg from a pioneer town in the 1870s to the west's major transportation and distribution center in 1914. Skilled building trades workers were vital to this dynamic transformation. In particular, the carpenters, bricklayers, painters, and plumbers who came to Winnipeg in the 1880s were the first of thousands employed in the mass production of buildings for modern commercial and residential use. Together with typographers and railway employees, who also possessed a great deal of craft skill, these were among the most important workers involved in the emergence of Winnipeg's early labour movement. Industrial capitalism transformed the building industry after 1880, and the lives of thousands of skilled workers. The entrepreneurs who came into the city from eastern Canada, the United States, and Britain brought the logic of general contracting to the local industry. Soon it was the dominant form of business, characterized by ferocious competition and mass production. To survive and prosper in such an environment employers adopted new methods of production and corporate organization which had a severe impact on the workplace and the skilled worker. As industrial capitalism matured in the 1890s and took hold with greater intensity in the 1900s, the workplace became more important as the object of change. Despite extensive business re-organization and the use of machines, the entire transformation from 1880 to 1914 was possible because of employers' manipulation of the labour market, the cheapest and most accessible of all resources...

This article reviews the book, "The Shopfloor Politics of New Technology," by Barry Wilkinson.

Research studies for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Developments Prospects for Canada. Contents: The role of law in labour relations / Joseph M. Weiler -- The use of legislation to control labour relations: the Quebec experience / Fernand Morin and Claudine Leclerc -- Urban law and policy development in Canada: the myth and reality / S.M. Makuch.

This paper considers two questions: first, what imbalance trends have characterized the Canadian labour market since 1966; and second, what factors explain these trends.

Pays homage to the life and work of George F. MacDowell, who taught at Brandon College (later Brandon University) and authored the book, "The Brandon Packers Strike: A Tragedy of Errors "(1971). A photo of MacDowell is included.

This article reviews the book, "Index et résumés de sentences arbritrales de griefs." v. 2.

This article reviews the book, "Organizational Behavior. Concepts, Controversies and Applications," 3rd ed., by Stephen P. Robbins.

Les auteurs cherchent à approfondir l'analyse du problème de la différenciation interne aux travailleurs en situation de changement organisationnel.

This article concentrates on youngsters between the ages of seven and fourteen who worked outside of the industrial and commercial mainstream of late nineteenth-century urban Ontario, usually for no wages, but who still contributed in important ways to the day-to-day survival of their families. The latter part of the paper includes a brief examination of the special circumstances of foster children. The article will describe the various types of work children performed, evaluate the contribution youngsters made to the family or household economy, determine the extent to which economic responsibilities affected a child's opportunities for personal development and social mobility, and judge the reaction working children elicited from middle- and upper-class members of society. Such an examination illuminates the social and economic structure of urban-industrial Ontario in the late nineteenth century, and casts light into the shadowy corners of urban poverty, business practices, reform mentality, and class structure. [Eight reproductions of black-and-white photos of children working are included.] --From author's introduction

Anthropologists have long been interested in the study of the Indians of British Columbia. Historians, however, have not until recently shared that interest. Little research has been conducted on the history of the Indians and almost all of what has been done has been confined to the early contacts between the indigenous people and the Europeans, leaving open a wide field of study. ...The Southern Interior Plateau is an area which provides significant potential for study. It had numerous economic opportunities for white settlers in farming, mining, logging and other industries, but because of its relatively small European population it was necessary for many settlers to rely on its Interior Salish Indian population for wage labour. The major road and rail projects in this area also required labour, and many Indians were able to fit into the region's economy as independent farmers and ranchers. --From introductory section

The study focuses on affirmative action programs for women employees and seeks to measure attitudes offirms and their participation in such programs.

This article reviews the book, "Ethics and Economics: Canada's Catholic Bishops on the Economic Crisis," by Gregory Baum and Duncan Cameron.

Micro-data from a Canadian industrial union establishment are explored in order to ascertain the extent to which seniority rules determine job-change decisions.

This article reviews the book, "Work Transformed: Automation and Labor in the Computer Age," by Harley Shaiken.

The article reviews and comments on "Advocate of Compassion: Stanley Knowles in the Political Process," by Gerry Harrop, "The Government of Edward Schreyer: Democratic Socialism in Manitoba," by James A. McAllister, "Secular Socialists: The CCF/NDP in Ontario, A Biography," by J.T. Morley, and "Social Democracy in Manitoba: A History of the CCF/NDP," by Nelson Wiseman.

This article reviews the book, "Being Had: Historians, Evidence and the Irish in North America," by Donald Harmon Akenson.

This article reviews the book, "Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord," by John Herd Thompson and Allen Seager.

Cet article se propose essentiellement d'inférer l'évolution des objectifs prioritaires du programme canadien d'assurance chômage à partir de l'analyse de la dynamique de ses modalités à travers le temps.

This article reviews the book, "Dictionnaire canadien des relations du travail," by Gérard Dion.

This article reviews the book, "Behind the Lines: East London Labour, 1914-1919," by Julia Bush.